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Friday, 23 October 2015

Vivid Vincas

A lively garden is
one which is always brimming with activity. Be it in a sprawling expanse of the
ground, in a not so expansive one, or one that is confined to the spaces
provided by potted soils placed in sunny balconies or rooftops. I believe, a
lively garden with whatever something happening inside it always gives a
feeling of immense pleasure to the person(s) behind it, be it a kid who has
just started to live out the world, get to know it or someone who has seen a
lot of the world and currently enjoying the days of doing nothing by spending
their leisurely time in the garden in their backyards.

How
do you distinguish a lively garden? Well, it's as easy as spotting the ripened orange
among the raw ones. You will find put yourself as you see one. Anyways, for
those who still have this question, a lively garden is one which shows you that
it has life. The plants there grow, bloom, and do everthing live things do.
Ofcourse, there are deaths as well, since it's a way of nature to bid adieu to the
old and welcome the new.

It's
just enthralling to experience a lively garden. As it happens with me, it excites
me to the core to wake up to something new in the limited space I have made for
my beloved plants. It gives me an immense pleasure to be able to find something
new like a millet seed I put up for the birds, (pigeons and the adorable little
house sparrows, which have now chosen to stay away from the human settlements
which they adored in earlier days, much to the worry of bird lovers) growing
into a beautiful bright green seedling, to a small plant that grew out of nowhere
only to give you a couple of beautiful red blooms.

Similar
are the beautiful plants of vincas which, due to their sheer vividity in
colours of blooms, are an absolute delight to have in a lively garden. It's
just an experience watching dozens of beautiful five-petalled flowers blooming
in your pots, with colours ranging from white to pink, to darker shades of
pink, and all the way to red, so much so that vinca or what is also called
periwinkle in some parts of the world is a must have plant in your garden. With
a prior hands-on experience with some beautiful vinca plants, this year around,
I got myself some more vinca plants. What these grew to be was, although, not
as I had expected, but then these were nothing short of beauty. What I had got
of the unknown plants were blooms in white and pink, but, not the hybrid ones as I had expected.

White Vinca blooms.

Pink vinca blooms.

Pink vinca blooms.

Pink vinca blooms.

White Vinca bloom.

White Vinca blooms.

White vinca bud.

Pink vinca bloom accompanied by a bud.

Pink vinca bloom.

Not
to mention, the stark contrast in the bloom colours and the dark green shiny
foliage presents a beautifully crafted plant that surely is a head turner when
it blooms so lavishly. Be it white or pink or other darker shades of the hybrid
varieties, the contrast of the flowers and foliage always leaves a great
impression on the ones growing it as well as the ones viewing it.

In the upcoming
posts, I have got some blooms of the Bayur tree lined up, that is called
Padmapushp in Hindi, a sapling of the tree that my father had brought, and
which has chosen to bloom now. For now, there are just buds, dozens of them in
a 5 foot plant. I will be back with the blooms of the Bayur tree soon. Till
then HAPPY GARDENING!